Hitler’s Childhood Home In Austria To Be Converted Into A Human Rights Training Centre

The house in Austria where Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was born will be converted into a human rights training center for police officers, BBC reported. The announcement was made by Austria’s Interior Ministry announced last week, after years of debate over how best to prevent it from becoming a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis.

Notably, Hitler was born in a building in northwest Austria’s Braunau am Inn, 284 km east of Vienna on April 20, 1889. He lived there until his family left when he was three years old. The building belonged to Gerlinde Pommer, whose family owned the building before Hitler’s birth, as per CNN.

In 2016, the government bought the building under a compulsory purchase order after a lengthy dispute. Later in 2019, it was revealed that the site would be used as a police station.